Legacy Meets Launch: Jason Aldean’s ‘Hits’ Collection Debuts on Top Country Albums Chart

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Plus, Bryan Andrews makes a viral debut with "The Older I Get."

Jason Aldean’s archetypal vocation retrospective, 30 Number One Hits, debuts astatine No. 4 connected Billboard’s Top Country Albums illustration (dated Oct. 25). It besides starts astatine No. 21 connected the all-genre Billboard 200 with 22,000 equivalent medium units successful the United States successful the week ending Oct. 16, according to Luminate.

The acceptable marks the superstar’s 13th apical 10 connected Top Country Albums, a tally that began with his 2005 self-titled release. Aldean has logged six No. 1s connected the list, with each his apical 10s having debuted successful the region.

The caller compilation arrived to streaming and integer platforms Oct. 10, with vinyl owed Oct. 31 exclusively astatine Walmart and connected disc everyplace Nov. 21.

Aldean finds himself successful beardown institution among state best-ofs. Since 2015, lone Garth Brooks, Kenny Rogers, Blake Shelton and George Strait person seen top hits collections unfastened higher, each reaching the apical three. Aldean’s No. 4 showing besides puts him shoulder-to-shoulder with Dolly Parton, arsenic his latest is the highest charting recently released hits bundle since her No. 4-peaking Diamonds & Rhinestones: The Greatest Hits Collection successful December 2022.

Andrews’ ‘Older’ Is New

Singer-songwriter and Carrollton, Mo., autochthonal Bryan Andrews makes his archetypal Billboard illustration quality astatine No. 3 connected Country Digital Song Sales with “The Older I Get” (2,000 sold). The way besides debuts astatine No. 8 connected Digital Song Sales and helium enters astatine No. 16 connected Emerging Artists.

Andrews began performing portion successful assemblage and has since built a pursuing of 3.5 cardinal connected TikTok. A viral Oct. 9 station referencing ICE drew wide attraction to the way (on which helium wonders, “Do the bully guys ever win?”), fueling downloads and engagement.

From Aldean’s career-spanning retrospective to Andrews’ breakthrough, the results underscore country’s changeless evolution, wherever established stars and newcomers stock the aforesaid scoreboards.